About a hundred years ago, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said that we cannot understand evolution as a whole without first studying the human phenomenon—what it truly means to be a self-reflective human.
However, he later indicated in The Human Phenomenon that a full understanding cannot be reached until all the divergent streams of evolution converge in a megasynthesis of all thinking elements on Earth—at the Omega Point of evolution.
That essentially is what has happened to me during my lifetime, as I describe in last month’s scholarly monograph ‘Revealing Humanity’s Place in the Cosmos’ and its postscript ‘The Art and Science of Humanity’.
As it is uncertain to what extent such an understanding of our origin and destiny as a species could spread into the collective, I have written a second two-page postscript examining the possibilities, titled ‘Towards the Alpha-Omega Point of Evolution’.